Dershowitz: Terror case hurts cause

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WRONG POSTER BOY? Lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asked a judge to declare the federal death penalty unconstitutional, but death penalty opponent Alan Dershowitz, above, said Tsarnaev’s is a ‘bad case to test this on’ given ‘Americans’ feelings about terrorism.’

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers want to stage a constitutional challenge to the death penalty in the wake of last week’s botched Oklahoma execution — but a leading death penalty opponent says the accused jihadi is the wrong poster boy for the cause.

“This is not a good case,” Harvard Law School professor and constitutional lawyer Alan Dershowitz said about Tsarnaev, accused of acting on a Islamic extremist agenda in the Boston Marathon bombings and their aftermath that left four people dead, hundreds injured, and more than a dozen badly maimed.

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